Great participation in this thread!
I boat out of Sauble Beach on the East shore of Lake Huron, about three hours north of Port Huron
Its an impressive pile of ice cubes for sure, my guess would be formed from a calm solid freeze to 6" thick nice clear ice, then a waves fracture it up from large open water followed by really high winds and waves to pile it so high
we don't get ice like that at Sauble due to never having long enough calm weather for it to freeze cleanly, we get cycles of freeze near shore pile up repeat

I was able to get out for a dive on Sunday but conditions were not favorable.
It rained all day Fri so visibility was next to nil, the wind had pushed the ice inshore so I couldn't get to the large ice bergs/piles
But I went for a swim anyway! I don't know how to embed a video

Gorgeous Boat!!!!

Yeah the No Wake zones suck. When I had my 253 Checkmate, I used to religiously launch at Lee St. in Saginaw and make the long trip every weekend. After buying the 380 and storing it for the first two years out to Bay Harbor, I maybe do a full river run for the first shake-down cruise for the year. I now keep the boat at Eagle Bay Marina in Standish where my family has owned a lakefront cottage since 1965. Plenty of water getting in and out, half mile of marked channel only to putz out of, and nice boat launch that is rarely crowded. I get to run on the pad a bit and still am to Boaters Beach in under 30 minutes however most of my friends still come out of the river. One of my best friends picked up a 33ZX donzi last year that is out on river most weekends along with a couple 27 fountains owned by other good friends.

Saginaw Bay is awesome. You just have to put in at the boat launch at the mouth of the river.

Hi gimmefuel and jrcrx, third childhood nice boats and pics. Gimmefuel, I live at lake Isabella and originally from AuGres. We'll have to connect at some point. Did your buddy buy the 33zx from Holland with the extension boxes? I wanted that boat!😥 Still partial to my outboards though. Everybody needs to do the charity island run again. Good time, hope for calm and hot. Might be same weekend as river roar which moved to July 13. Todd

The ice piles: wind at gravely shoals lighthouse was 58 knots from the sw. Pushed the ice out of bay and piles up on South side of point lookout. In 1983 the piles were 50-60 feet tall with the base of the pile at peoples doorsteps. Todd

Todd,

We went and grabbed his 33ZX from Vermont actually. It is not the Daytona package with boxes but still has the 500efi with whipple tunes. Runs pretty good around 78 gps for the width/weight of the thing.

Yes the charity run is fun but I need to raft up outside of main line with some good like-minded people. seems everyone just ties up then abandons their boats. I spent half the day two years ago resetting anchors to keep my stuff from getting messed up. And the DJ got drunk early then was obnoxious. Running out of EBM it is only 24 miles to the island. Also glad to see the River Roar is back. I figured out several years ago getting VIP tent tickets was way to go versus trying to watch from the water. between the bridges and the long USCG exclusion zone, couldn't hardly see anything. VIP tent was amazing!

I think we will be taking the boat down to watch the St. Clair Riverfest races. My inlaws live not even a mile from Palmer Park. I've wanted to hang out on the sandbar for the Saturday tuning then have a good group to watch from the park for the Sunday Races. The inlaws also set up to feed an army that weekend. Its a good time.

Doesn't your ass get cold sitting in a plastic kayak in icewater???? much less the chilling effect or the errant drip or splash....